Round 6: Tossup 17

It’s not Legendre (“luh-JOND”), but this mathematician names a method of computing the integrals of polynomials, his namesake quadrature. It’s not Ostrogradsky, but this man sometimes gives his name to the Divergence (10[1])Theorem, as well as to the set obtained by adjoining i to the integers. This man published the Theorema (-5[1])Egregium, which concerns his namesake curvature for surfaces. This man names a function whose simplest form is the exponential of minus x squared. (10[1])Systems (10[1])of linear equations can be solved by this man’s (10[1])namesake elimination, (10[2])and he also (10[2])names (10[1])a distribution whose graph is a bell curve. For 10 points, name this mathematician who gives his name to another name for the normal distribution. ■END■

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